[Sca-cooks] Cooking with youngsters was Wow, a day of it's own!

[johnna holloway]

So how many people do cut up their own meat these days?
It's perhaps not butchering but cutting up chickens is not all that hard
a skill. We expect people to be able carve at table as they did in
medieval times, but we don't expect the cooks to be able to cut up a
bird.

What skill set do we expect people who cook at our events to have?

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway
[And in this case it was a real matter of money that wasn't being saved
by buying the chickens whole and cutting them up.
There was a chicken stew on the menu that would have done nicely by
having tossed in it all the wings and backs. The budget was less than 3
dollars per person for food.]
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Bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:
> Really, Johnna, how many people ever cut their own meat any more?  I can
> manage without making too much of a mess of a chicken, but I grew up watching
> my mom or dad do it.  There's no shame in not knowing how to do something
> like that, and it has no bearing at all on whether she could adequately cook
> the bird after it was cut.  Personally, unless the group she was buying for
> was dangerously short of money, or the feast cost inordinately high because
> of her purchasing, I'm far more concerned that she know how to tell if the
> chicken is properly cooked, and be able to serve a tasty, well-done dish,
> than if she cut it up herself.>
> Brangwayna Morgan